Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assuming, of course, that he would be opposing President Humphrey and not President Nixon. Though he is obviously wearied by his third try for the nomination, Rocky did not veto a fourth. "I've learned long ago," he said, "not to put yourself in a box and limit yourself for the future...
...bore. When it came right down to the wire, however, they found old habits hard to discard, including the absurdity of four seconding speeches even for favorite-son candidates. All the Republican National Committee had really done was to delay the proceedings until prime time and to limit the seconding speeches for candidates to five minutes. The net works found themselves reporting a spectacle whose script they were basically powerless to enliven. As NBC's John Chancellor noted in retrospect: "Conventions were structured and their main patterns made up when people got their information from newspapers. Today...
Learning to Limit. The U.S. involvement in South Viet Nam and Russia's handling of Czechoslovakia are, of course, totally different situations. Both conflicts, though, serve to show the limits of big-power action. The U.S. and Russia must move with caution for fear of touching off nuclear conflict, and pay some attention to the opinions of their allies. Both superpowers must come to accept some changes that they do not like. The Russians may eventually learn the limits not only of military intervention, of which they have always been rather chary, but of political subversion as well...
...settlement as "an outstanding achievement of bargaining." When Bethlehem Steel Corp. followed with price increases, Washington's reaction was far different. Labeling Bethlehem's price hikes "unreasonable," Lyndon Johnson said that they "should not be permitted to stand." To that end, his Administration took action to limit U.S. Government purchase of steel for defense purposes to those companies that hold the line on prices...
Whatever the reason, the dip made the smaller and more vulnerable brokerage houses wonder whether the backlog of paper work could not push them toward the "fail-safe" limit...